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The incalculable advantage of august institutions in a free state is, that they prevent this collapse.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “The incalculable advantage of august institutions in a free state is, that they prevent this collapse.”
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Bagehot argues that established institutions in a free state help prevent political collapse.
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They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.
But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
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